Re: bin/44246: enhance mv to work better with xargs

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2013, James K. Lowden wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Jan 2013 20:21:59 -0600
> schnoebe%netbsd.org@localhost (Eric Schnoebelen) wrote:
>
> > I've taken a look at bin/44246 and attempted to implement an
> > enhancement to resolve the PR.
>
> I really don't see the problem.
>
>         $ echo * | xargs mv newdir
>
> fails, yes, but
>
>         $ echo * newdir | xargs mv
>
> works.

It only works while the expansion of * is shorter than xargs's maximum 
command length.  Once you exceed that limit, you fail.


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